Malaysian Grand Prix – Qualifying

I was in Montreal over the weekend so I’m watching Qualifying on Monday evening, having carefully avoided any news about the race 🙂

Qualifying 1 (Q1)
VL first on track – the BBC commentators joke about the lesser-spotted Hispania car 🙂
VL 1:43.128
PR 1:40.334
RB 1:40.157
PM 1:39.176
LH 1:37.466
Red flag (session suspended) so the marshalls can remove a piece of SB’s Toro Rosso (side pod?) which flew off!
The two Lotus cars wait at the pit exit … and the lights turn greenFM 1:36.744 on the softer (option) tyre compound
(FA P2)
2mins left of Q1; bottom 7 are NR, MS, JT, TG, JD, NK, VL
(MS P4)
Chequered flag
RB scrapes through (P17); MW was way down in P15
Back of the grid will be: 18=PM, 19=HK, 20=JT, 21=TG, 22=JD, 23=VL, 24=NK
The good news for these guys is they all made the 107% time